With more than 2,000 pieces, The Chalre Collection is one of the largest non-institutional Ceramic Art collections in the Southeast Asia region.  It is also one of the most diverse comprising ceramics styles dating from more than 10 centuries.  

 

The focus of The Chalre Collection is Chinese and Asian Tradeware Ceramics -- in other words, Ceramics that was traded throughout Asia.  Tradeware Ceramics (Porcelain, Stoneware and Earthenware) tell the story of how the peoples of Asia forged social and commercial ties with each other during ancient times.  Of the many thousands of traded items over the centuries, Ceramics reigns supreme since it is the only one durable enough to have survived into modern times to give us a record of Asia's past.